Retired network engineer. Independent Swift dev. MacOS Apps: “CIDR Trainer”,“Network Mom ACL Analyzer”,“Network Mom Availability”,“Netrek”. CCIE #8302 Emeritus
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I vaguely remember a 20+ year old commercial (for PAC Bell?)
It shows one person in a suit talking glowingly about the cloud
Cuts to another executive talking glowingly about the information superhighway
Pans to another person talking about the future of information
Then it cuts to a stressed out technician in the basement with a bunch of wires in the background: “if I don’t get this network up in 30 minutes…I’m a DEAD MAN” 😳
That technician in the basement was my role model
I’ll bet there’s a network engineer in Portugal today feeling like that…
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Eventually it happens to all of us. Today FSD 14.3.14 v3 SAVED MY LIFE!!! I had green light going 65 and a lady ran a red light. I didn’t even see her but FSD slammed on the brakes.
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My 4th grader started @_MathAcademy_ on August 21 and finished the 4th grade course on October 4. Six weeks.
Two weeks later her school gave the annual MAP test.
Spring of 3rd grade: 208
Fall of 4th grade: 230
98th percentile for achievement, 99th for growth.
What it took: about 2 hours a week, roughly 15 hours total. The diagnostic gave her credit for what she already knew, so all of that time went to the gaps.
It wasn’t even daily. Some weekdays she did nothing, then an hour on Sunday.
I sat with her for the first 4 or 5 days. Once the habit formed she started working on her own. Now she’ll do several lessons in a row and only calls me when she’s stuck or tired.
She’s almost done with 5th grade math now. Thank you, @justinskycak and @_MathAcademy_ !
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5800 square feet Greenwich village loft
Paying $2346
Tenant ran a recording studio out of there for years
From a 2003 Bloomberg article - the unit has $2,802 a month in common charges and monthly taxes of $5,498
Rent control is broken and oddly cities that have rent control laws do not have abundant nor affordable rent
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The largest education experiment in U.S. history, Project Follow Through, compared about a dozen teaching models with low-income students.
Direct Instruction ranked highest in reading and math.
50 years later, most schools still don't use it.
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The hypocrisy is almost too much to believe.
The government wants to “check up” on homeschool kids to make sure they’re meeting state standards…
while public schools are graduating kids who aren’t meeting those same standards.
Maybe fix the system you’re already running before demanding more oversight of parents.
Every video had a ball roll onto the road.
Hit the simulated brakes, because a kid always follows.
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The value of LinkedIn is seeing which of your prior coworkers, who will vouch for you, are at the employer you are currently applying for.
Then you contact them and ask them to identify the hiring manager for the position and pass on your resume with their recommendation.
Only connect with people who will vouch for you and who you will vouch for. Hiring managers can see who an applicant is connected to and ask them about candidates.
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Jay Leno just tried @Tesla's FSD (Supervised) for the first time. The Model Y L pulled over by itself when an ambulance with its sirens on drove by.
"We got it on self-driving mode! I'm not touching anything."
Jay finally tried FSD! haha
(via new episode of Jay Leno's Garage)
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I decided to listen to Sold a Story Season 1 again before listening to Season 2. I wanted to refresh my memory about the podcast. I think it actually hit harder on this second listen. I still am languishing on a parent who said (not exact quote) in Episode One, “I came to the realization that if you send your child to public school, you are going to have to teach them to read yourself.”
And this has stuck with me because billions and billions are spent each year on public education and really we need schools to do two things ABOVE all else:
1. Teach children to read
2. Teach children to do math
And I can’t understand why in 2026 anything else is happening in school besides this. Now AFTER a child masters these skills and shows the capacity to continue developing, schools can bring in other things, but until then, I think elementary school should deliver everything through a reading and math lens, even specials.
EVERY elementary teacher, no matter the content, should be required to gave either a reading or math endorsement. It’s the best first step.
Looking forward to starting Season 2 tomorrow. @ehanford
There’s a newer edition but the dragon on the front is very different.
No idea if it’s still in use.
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Sometimes I’ll make a typo in a reply and copy, delete, paste, correct. Guess I’ll need to not do that.
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In Scalzi’s book “Redshirts”, the Astrogator (based on Checkov) suffers PTSD from almost being killed every week/mission, but then miraculously recovering repeatedly. 😂
Could have been based on O’Brien too.
